Supreme Court Dodges Qualified Immunity Cases
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in a series of cases dealing with qualified immunity – the court-invented rule shielding government…
NYC Welds Playground Gates Shut
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. New York City Mayor (and one-time Democratic presidential candidate) Bill DeBlasio’s ongoing feud with the city’s Hassidic community got even more heated, as…
The NCAA Loses Another Round to the Free Market
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. College athletes got a win in Florida last week when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation giving them the right to earn money from…
Police Militarization Back in the Spotlight
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Police departments’ use of military hardware was a big issue for small-government conservatives a few years ago who worried about the implications for…
Qualified Immunity Splits House and Senate
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. House Democrats and Senate Republicans are putting together competing packages of legislation on law enforcement reform. A key sticking point has emerged: what…
New York Repeals Police Secrecy Law
Article from Reason by C.J. Ciaramella. New York lawmakers passed a bill today rolling back a notorious police secrecy law that has hidden misconduct records from the public for decades….
Qualified Immunity Protects Cops Who Arrested and Assaulted Man for Standing Outside His Home
Article from Reason by Billy Binion. Two police officers who allegedly assaulted a man outside of his own house and arrested him on bogus charges after failing to identify themselves…
Chief Justice Roberts and the First Amendment
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. In the days before mass protests became the big story, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that California’s coronavirus-inspired limits on the size of…
Gun Control on the Ropes
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Amidst the clamor for justice system reforms in the wake of violence from protestors and police alike comes a radical idea: the gun…
Biden’s Role in Making Things Worse
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is alienating his long-time allies in the police unions with his calls for reform of law enforcement…